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Alles Banane

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:43:00 GMT

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Clip Source: eatliver.com

Tags: banane, bananen, bananas, alles banane

Wierd current news headlines ... very funny... acutally on the news

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:23:20 GMT

clipped by: Jessbluebear

Clip Source: www.newsoftheweird.com

Recent Alarming Headlines

(1) "Elephant beats heroin habit with detox" (Reuters, 9-4-08) (Chinese poachers had spiked his bananas with heroin to control him). (2) "Court grants injunction to stop woman cutting off man's penis" (Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 8-15-08) (He told the judge in Darwin, Australia, that to escape her pursuit recently, he had to hide in tall grass). (3) "Police: Chihuahuas provoke baton attack on nude beach" (KGW-TV website, 7-28-08) (A naked beachcomber, 74, near Portland, Ore., may have overreacted to two Chihuahuas advancing on him).

Iraq Progress: Peace Wall Being Taken Down

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:34:36 GMT

clipped by: BitDrifter
clipper's remarks: More great news for Iraqis and the United States.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The Sunni leader stood on the base of the crane next to his Shia counterpart, and inveighed against sectarianism.

"Iraq is one family," he said - to cheers from the crowd. "We are united now, Sunni, Shia, Christian, Turkmen and Kurd. One Iraq."

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

People are profoundly relieved fighting has stopped here.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Over in west Baghdad, Ameriya district was occupied by al-Qaeda for months.

Now, there are checkpoints jointly operated by the Iraqi army and by the local Awakening movement.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Life is returning to normal in Ameriya for Mohammed, who can now enjoy a walk with his daughter, Reen.

He said life under the al-Qaeda occupation was terrible.

"They wouldn't even let us smoke, and we couldn't buy bananas because they said they looked rude."

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The Americans are in the background in Ameriya now.

15 Diabetes-Friendly Snack Tips

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:47:02 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Might be useful ...

Clip Source: www.rd.com

15 Diabetes-Friendly Snack Tips

Keep your blood sugar steady with a smart and satisfying snack!

Help keep your snacking "honest.

1. Keep your snacks to 150 calories or less. The danger of snacks is that they can become more like extra meals if you go overboard

2. Beware of low-fat snacks

people tend to eat about 28 percent more of a snack when it's low-fat

3. Plate your snacks

4. Grab the whole bag. A single serving bag, that is

5. Pour a handful of nuts

contain the healthy monounsaturated fats that lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease

6. Have a few whole-grain crackers with peanut butter

7. Snack on raw veggies

8. Spread some black bean salsa over eggplant slices

9. Sip a small cup of vegetable soup

10. Indulge in a few decadent bites

three dried apricots, a small piece of dark chocolate

three walnuts or almonds

11. Blend a fruit smoothie

12. Freeze grapes and peeled bananas

13. Eat an apple—and the skin

14. Try low-fat string cheese

15. Have your chocolate "bar" frozen

a frozen fudge pop

Tags: diabetes, calories, diet, research, healthcare, doctors

Escabeche de Guineos

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:04:02 GMT

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Escabeche de Guineos

Ingredients

5 lb green bananas

2 lb chicken gizzards

2 large spanish onions

1 head of garlic

1/2 pound black olives

1/2 cup virgin olive oil

salt (to taste)

pepper (to taste)

Procedure

Boil the bananas in salt water until cooked, about 20 minutes. Boil the chicken gizzards in salt water, add 1 envelope of regular sazon, onion powder, and garlic powder (1 spoon of each), until chicken is very tender, about 2 hours. Drain the chicken gizzards and cut into small pieces. Cut onions into thin slices. Take garlic and puree in food chopper or blender add olive oil, salt and pepper to taste (you may add 1 envelope of plain sazon). Cut bananas into 1/2 inch pieces (straight circles). Add bananas, chicken gizzards, garlic,olives, onions and olive oil, mix well. Place in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 325F. Remove and serve warm, this dish can be served with rice, meat, pasteles or alone.

Miracle: The Coolest Fruit On Earth

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:25:49 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Miraculous! "a fruit that when eaten, renders sour foods sweet."

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

The Coolest Fruit On Earth

Written by new contributor, Sonia Dong

The wonders of the natural world never cease to amaze. Imagine: a fruit that when eaten, renders sour foods sweet. It’s like the Midas touch of food, and it actually exists.

Dubbed miracle fruit, this small red berry hailing from West Africa is the star performer at “flavour tripping parties” organized by Franz Aliquo in the United States. Bartenders have also been experimenting with the fruit to create new cocktails, and UK art magazine Cabinet has included it on the menu at their events.

At the ‘flavour tripping’ events, partygoers pop a red berry in their mouths, and for the next hour, limes taste like candy and vinegar like apple juice. Other choice eats at these parties include bananas, mustard, cheese, dark beer and cheap tequila.

The flavour-altering berry (or Synsepalum dulcificum, if you want to be technical), contains a protein called miraculin.

comes into contact with acids

result is a

sweet taste

Tags: miracle fruit, west africa, flavor tripping, synsepalum dulcificum, miraculin

Recipe

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:58:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Banana Nut Muffins

Clip Source: www.elise.com

Banana Nut Muffins Recipe

Ingredients

3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tbsp espresso or strong coffee (optional)
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 1/2 cup of flour
1 cup chopped walnuts (toasted or raw)

Method

No need for a mixer with this recipe.

1 Preheat the oven to 350°F. With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.

2 Mix in the sugar, egg, espresso and vanilla.

3 Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in.

4 Add the flour, mix until it is just incorporated. Fold in the chopped walnuts.

5 Pour mixture into a prepared muffin tin. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Check for doneness with a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin. If it comes out clean, it's done. Cool on a rack.

Makes 12 muffins.

Cure diarrhea

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:49:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Diarrhea Definition
Diarrhea is a condition in which the movement of food through the digestive system is faster than normal, that happens as a cause of frequent and watery bowel movements.
Diarrhea can cause dehydration rapidly in small infants and very young children. Diarrhea is correlated with nutritional status and has many reasons, such as: sickness, allergy, virus, and more.

Clip Source: www.grannymed.com

Home Remedies for Diarrhea

Mix a teaspoon of vinegar and a teaspoon of honey in a glass of water half an hour before each meal.

Boil pomegranate peel, cool and drink half a cup 2 times a day (can add sugar).

Grind half an apple and drink the juice, a little every time.

Eat: Rice, toasted bread with no spread, bananas and drink a lot of water.

Herbal remedy for diarrhea: blanch mango leaves and drink to help with the diarrhea.

Squeeze one lemon; add 1 spoon of milk and drink.

Blanch guava leaves and drink to help with the diarrhea.

Make tea out of coriander leaves.

Drink chamomile tea to relieve the diarrhea and pain.

Drink carrot soup.

Drink peppermint tea.

Home remedy for diarrhea: drink wormwood tea to treat stomach trouble.

Squeeze pomegranate and drink.

Mix and mash: corn, garlic and potatoes, then eat.

Blanch 1-2 teaspoons of oregano in water for 10 minutes and drink.

To stop the diarrhea, eat boiled sweet potatoes.

Travelers diarrhea

Diarrhea

Diarrhea Treatment

Home Remedies For diarrhea

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Alcapurria

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:48:02 GMT

clipped by: satinmermaid

Clip Source: www.worldrecipehouse.com

Alcapurria

Ingredients :

1-3/4 pounds yautia (taro root)
3 pounds unripe (green) bananas
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons annatto oil plus some to coat aluminum foil 1 tecipe Basic Beef Picadillo 2 cups corn oil

Method :

1 Peel the yautia, and the green bananas. Grate each vegetable separately on the finest (smallest) side of the grater. Combine the grated vegetables with the salt and annatto oil in a large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
2 Brush a small amount of oil on an 8 x 10-inch square of aluminum foil. Spread on 1/4 cup of the dough. Place 1 tablespoon of picadillo on top. Fold the foil so the filling is completely covered. Smooth the fritter out with the back of a spoon. Repeat the process with the rest of the dough. When ready to fry, carefully remove the fritters from the foil. In a skillet, heat the corn oil until but not smoking. Fry a few alcapurrias at a time until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.

Great Tips for Around the House

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:21:04 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug
clipper's remarks: Many more at the source

Clip Source: milkyourmoney.com

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little ’stringy things’ off of it.
That’s how the primates do it.

Banana Ripening: Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Beef: Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

Mint Brownies: Make brownies as directed.
Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies.
Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Eggs: To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple
of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in
and then beat them up.

Goodbye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it ½’ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

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Banana Upside Down Cake

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:07:34 GMT

clipped by: jlshen

Clip Source: cookingdunkinstyle.blogspot.com

1 cup (2 sticks unsalted butter) at room temperature

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar

2 t0 3 ripe firm bananas peeled and cut diagonally

1 1/2 cup sugar

2 large eggs at room temperature

2 cup flour

1 tbl baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup milk, you can use any type

Preheat your oven to 350

You need a round cake pan, non stick is preferable

Place the butter and brown sugar into your cake pan, and melt on the stovetop, mixing constantly until it incorporates and becomes like liquid carmel

Arrange your banana slices in the carmel mixture overlapping

Beat remaining butter and 1 1/2 cup sugar in a bowl

Add vanilla and eggs and beat until smooth

Sift 2 cups flour and the baking powder/salt into a bowl

Add dry ingredients and milk alternately to butter mixture

Spoon carefully over the bananas

Bake until puffy and brown about an hour (this can vary, check at 50 minutes)

Transfer to rack and cool

Invert onto cake plate or serving platter

I serve with whipped cream

Builder's Marmite diet

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:06:23 GMT

clipped by: drgreenfingers

Clip Source: www.ananova.com

Ananova:

Builder's Marmite diet

An East London builder has lived on a diet of Marmite sandwiches for the past 25 years.

George Lambert, 35, of Hackney, loves the savoury spread and eats it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

His monthly intake is the equivalent of a stack of sandwiches 7ft high, reports The Sun.

Mr Lambert does include other fillings, like beetroot, bananas, celery and sardines, but there is always Marmite as well.

Marmite, a good Vitamin B source, was first made in Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, in 1902 as a by-product of beer brewing.

Big Brother Addiction gone but not forgotten - Methadone success story

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:52 GMT

clipped by: tdsmum
clipper's remarks: Well it is claimed somewhere that an elephant never forgets. This one may have built up a social memory or more likely a very UNsociable one towards a certain group.

A word of warming to any traders that cross his path in the future..

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

A ONCE drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox programme on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang", was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

After police arrested the traders and freed Xiguang a few months later, the elephant was confirmed to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms and sent to a wild animal protection centre in Hainan for rehab.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

Now clean, Xiguang was expected to arrive on Saturday at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of the elephant's home province of Yunnan on the mainland.

Xiguang's return would cap a 1500km journey home, and mark another step in the elephant's triumph over addiction.

Tags: elephant, heroin, xiguang, big brother

Drug-addicted elephant kicks heroin habit

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:12:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Drug-addicted elephant kicks heroin habit

'Big Brother' completes detox in China after being fed spiked bananas

BEIJING - A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang" in state media reports, was captured in 2005 in southwest China by traders who used spiked bananas to control him.

A year of methadone injections at five times the human dosage had helped wean Xiguang off his addiction.

Tags: animals

Elephant kicks smack

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:47:41 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: Was addicted to heroin then a year of methadone

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin after being fed bananas spiked with the drug is to return home after undergoing a detox programme.

The four-year-old animal, called Xiguang, received methadone injections for a year at five times the human dosage, state media said.

It was illegally captured by traders in 2005 in south-west China.

When police arrested the traders and freed the elephant, it was found to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

The elephant's eyes kept streaming and he made continuous trumpeting noises, the Beijing News newspaper's website reported.

It is thought that the traders fed the elephant bananas laced with heroin to capture and control it.

Xiguang was sent to a wild animal protection centre on Hainan island in south-west China for rehab, the official Xinhua new agency said

He is expected to arrive at a wildlife park in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, on Saturday.

Tags: elephant, heroin, smack, methadone